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“Family means nothing,” she said, and I knew she believed it. “You have no obligation to love your family. It wasn’t your choice to be born.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Well... the thing is... I don't actually think I care about English literature. I don't want to do it at university."

Aled looked startled. "Don't you?"

"I'm not sure I want to go at all."

"But... that was -That was what you cared about more than anything."

"Only because I thought I had to." I said. "And because I was good at it. I thought that was the only was I was going to have a good life. But... that's wrong.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“The appeal was obvious. Eddie might have been fond of Riley, talked gothic bullshit with him and got drunk on cheap beer, but now Andrew understood where the hook had sunk in because it pierced straight through the meat of his cheek, too. He wanted to race Halse again, and that was a strange sensation: want. He also wanted to break his knuckles on Halse’s jaw.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“how many miserable young people does it take to change a light bulb. please, i am serious, i have been sitting in the dark for 2 weeks”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence